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| JENA WALK (MEMORY
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walk is an act of contemplation. For this walk the visitors were
taken on a journey over a pastoral landscape where the battle between
the Prussians and Napolean took place 200years ago. This is also
a landscape where Russian tanks did military exercises and where
Louise Seidler (the painter of Goethe from Jena) may have walked.
Through excerpts from Seidler’s diary entries we unfold a layered
narrative that deals with the physicality of memory. There are also
sound effects from battle scenes: cannons, muskets and horses galloping
by. Time slips from one century to another as the listener walks,
aware of their feet on the earth and the wind on their face. They
will be aware that they are walking on the site just as others have
walked over the same earth the last two hundred years, their stories
mixing with those in the past. |
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CARDIFF & MILLER
Audio walk
Commissioned by the
Culture Department of the City of Jena, Germany. |
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